Stray Cast: Chicago baseball?

It only seems apt to run the Stray Cast here.

Afterall, this Web log is named for the Stray Cast, which has snapped off the end of the outdoors column in the Sun-Times on Wednesdays since April 2, 2003.

Here’s today’s:

(Normally, I don’t do an aside, but this is for you wise guys who were asking if I noticed they were still playing baseball in Chicago. Better have the rods ready, it looks like a long summer.)